Photos

It's been a while since I put some photos up. Here are some recent ones that I found laying around - quite a variety too.

Booked Solid

I've recently come into quite a few new books. I've also started reading some of them (what an Idea!). But I find myself mostly overwhelmed with how much I want to read - a good place to find yourself I suppose. Unfortunately, here's the long list of books I've only recently gotten from good ole Paperbackswap and have yet to read (this isn't even all of them):

• Jack: A Life of C.S. Lewis by George Sayer
• The Meaning of Sports: Why Americans Watch Baseball, Football, and Basketball by Michael Mandelbaum
• On Becoming Baby Wise by Bucknam and Ezzo
• Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest by Beck Weathers
• Does God Have a Future?: A Debate on Divine Providence by John Sanders
• Cold Mountain by Charles Fraizer
• Jihad vs. McWorld: How Tribalism and Globalism Reshaping the World by Benjamin Barber
• Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 by Garrison Keilor
• On the Road by Jack Kerouac
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
• Nickle and Dimed: On (not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

On top of that, here are a few I've picked up myself or been gifted:

• Dreams of My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
• Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (started reading last night)
  
• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan (I have read half of this one)

Other books I am currently reading, picked up and read the intro to, have picked through:

• The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
  
• The God Who Risks: A Theology of Providence by John Sanders
• Simply Christian by N.T. Wright

I have gotten better at finish ones I start. Here are my most recents:

• Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
• Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
• A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright
• The Man Comes Around: The Spiritual Journey of Johnny Cash by Dave Urbanski
• The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama

Is it possible to have too much access to books and information? I'm not sure. All of these, plus I have three magazine subscriptions (Paste, Relevant, and National Geographic). Add on reading I do for and at work. Then consider all the music I buy and listen to, the podcasts subscriptions I have (eight at last count).

Really, this is a lot of media and information. Too much?

A Letter of Concern

Dear You-Know-Who-You-Are,

I'm struggling. Truth be told, after a few go-arounds with you, I just don't know if I'll be able to muster up good feelings towards your offerings. Where's the you I knew and loved? If that's you, if that's truly you hidden somewhere in the caterwauling in the midst of Viva la Vida, well, then please just step out and reveal yourself, because except for here and there (far too sparsely), I can't seem to find you. I'd've preferred it that you just stand up and be yourself. Much appreciated.

Adam

The Bishop

5 Things and 1 More

Five Albums in My "To Listen To" Playlist:

• Eric McKeown - Grand
• Regina Spektor - Begin to Hope
• Sleeping at Last - Keep No Score
• Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
• Jon Foreman - Summer (EP)

I'd like to start doing lots and lots of lists (can be top ten, or eight, or fourteen):
movies to watch on a tuesday, books from middle school, habits i'd never admit except on a blog, words i mispell, etc., et al.

Give me ideas/suggestions/prompts and I'll do them.